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âWhen you put your head on the pillow at night it doesnât go away,â Mr OâBarry said of his time campaigning against the slaughter in Taiji.
âItâs like one long, bad dream, these last 15 years.”
‘It affects your family,’ O’Barry says of dolphin activist work
In his pursuit to free dolphins from captivity, Mr OâBarry has had his life threatened on many occasions, and lost count of how often heâs been imprisoned around the world.
Describing Japanese prison as torturous, he has avoided confrontation there, even when a hunter in the town of Taiji decapitated a dead baby dolphin in front of him.
âI think he wanted to shock me with a knife, that kind of stuff right in my face,â Mr OâBarry said.
âBlood splattered all over meâ.
Mr O’Barry spoke to Yahoo News Australia from his home in Copenhagen. Source: Michael Dahlstrom
The work has taken a toll on him, but he believes itâs the people he loves have suffered most.
âIt affects your family, it affects everybody around you,â he said.
âYou miss your sonâs graduation, Iâm not sure I would recommend this to anybody.â
‘I wish I hadn’t taken that phone call’
Every time he leaves his home heâs walking into conflict, and thatâs hard to leave at the door when he comes home.
Mr OâBarry’s work shot to prominence 10 years ago after his campaign to end dolphin slaughter in Japan was documented in the Oscar winning film The Cove.
Sometimes you have a split second to make a choice and it’ll literally change your life.Ric O’Barry
His work there began after receiving a call from another activist asking for assistance.
Mr O’Barry recalls he was told it was “dangerous” but they needed help.
Mr O’Barry (left), a skilled diver, said it is thrilling to set dolphins free. Source: Dolphin Project
âSo, I bought an aeroplane ticket and I was there the next day,â he said.
âThat was 20 years ago and Iâve been stuck (campaigning) there ever since.
âIn some ways I wish I hadnât taken that phone call.â
Dolphin Projectâs work in the town of Taiji, has focused on not just the killing of dolphins for their meat, but also the huntersâ ties to the marine park industry.
With dolphin consumption not particularly popular in Japan, and known to be high in mercury, Mr OâBarry believes it is the lucrative sums earned from selling live dolphins which makes the slaughter financially viable.
While debate rages over whether dolphin killing is a tradition in Japan, the large scale culls and capture of these animals is a relatively new phenomenon.
Dead dolphins sell for as little as US $480, while a live animal can sell for 100 times that amount, according to Vice News.
Dolphin Project urges tourists to avoid dolphinariums. Source: Getty
The majority of those sold into entertainment are sent to China where there is an expanding middle class, with money to spend on dolphin shows, the Washington Post reported.
A growing number of Japanese nationals are protesting the hunt each year, and Mr OâBarry believes that ongoing education will see the practice phased out.
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His activism was directly sparked by the loss of Flipper who died in his arms. The very next day he flew to the Bahamas and was arrested after setting a dolphin free.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. â SpaceX is gearing up to launch its second Starlink mission of the month tonight (March 9) as it expands its growing internet satellite megaconstellation, and you can watch the action live online.
The private spaceflight company is planning to fly one of its Falcon 9 rockets for a sixth time for the Starlink mission. The two-stage launcher will blast off from Space Launch Complex 40 here at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 9:58 p.m. EST (0258 March 10 GMT).
SpaceX is continuing its rapid launch pace, which was set last year when the company launched a record 26 times. Tonight’s flight marks the company’s seventh launch of 2021, with at least one more Starlink mission planned for March.
Forecasters with the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron reported that the launch weather looks promising for Tuesday night’s liftoff, with a 90% chance of favorable weather. The only slight concerns being liftoff winds and cumulus clouds.
If needed, there is a backup attempt on Wednesday, with weather forecasts dipping slightly to and 80% of good launch conditions.
Beautiful weather is also predicted down range, which is good news for one of SpaceXâs two drone ships â “Just Read the Instructions” â which hopes to catch the booster as it returns to Earth. If successful, the landing will mark the 76th recovery for SpaceX since the company landed its first booster in 2015. And will mark the second catch in a row for SpaceX after it lost a booster in February.
SpaceX relies heavily on its fleet of veteran rockets, which have enabled SpaceX to keep up with its launch ambitions. However, company officials have stressed that while booster recovery is beneficial, the main goal of each mission is to successfully deliver the payload to space.
The booster doing the lifting in this mission is a five-time flier, set to make its sixth launch and landing attempt. Dubbed B1058, the first stage made its debut by launching two astronauts to the International Space Station in May of 2020.
Relive the historic SpaceX Demo-2 launch with this awesome highlight reel
Following that historic mission, it ferried a communications satellite for South Korea’s military, a cargo dragon spacecraft full of research and supplies for the space station, the most satellites ever launched on a single mission (Transporter-1), and today’s flight will be its second Starlink payload.
The flight also marks one of the shortest turnaround times between booster flights for SpaceX. B1058 last flew on Jan. 24, and will blast off again from the same launch pad just 45 days later â a record for a sixth reflight of a booster. (The previous record was 59 days.)
During a news conference on the upcoming Crew-2 mission, which is set to launch on April 22, SpaceX’s Benji Reed briefly discussed the refurbishment process. “We learn something about reuse after every mission,” he said. That learning process has helped the company refine its procedures and reduce times in between flights.
SpaceX deploys new Starlink batch in amazing view from space
This particular flight, Starlink 20, is the 21st set of internet-beaming satellites that SpaceX has delivered to space, including a set of initial prototypes in 2019. SpaceX’s initial constellation will contain 1,440 satellites, and the company is well on its way to achieving that milestone.
But SpaceX is not stopping there. The company was granted permission to launch up to 30,000 satellites, with the option for more at a later time.
The stack of 60 broadband satellites will join the fleet already in orbit, bringing the total number launched over 1,200. (That number includes prototypes of the satellites that are no longer in service.) With SpaceX quickly filling its initial constellation, the company is moving closer to providing commercial internet service with the Starlink network. As such, it is planning a full commercial rollout later this year.
That roll out comes after an extensive beta testing program that included both employees and the public. The “better than nothing” beta testing program kicked off in 2019 and has already provided thousands of users connectivity.
Starlink satellites make big dfference to Hoh Native American tribe
Some of those users include people in remote areas that currently have little-to-no internet service, such as the Pikangikum tribe in Canada. Starlink terminals were delivered to the reservation in late November, and have better access to education, healthcare service as well as contact with friends and family.
Students in Wise County, Virginia are also better connected now, thanks to Starlink terminals arriving earlier this year. Roughly 40% of families in the area lack access to the internet which made learning all the more difficult during the pandemic. The county board of supervisors worked with SpaceX to provide free internet service to at least 40 families, with the project expanding to more families at a later time.
In advance of an official rollout, the company recently opened up its website for preorders, allowing a limited number of users per area. If interested, potential customers can sign up via the company’s Starlink website and secure service by putting down a deposit. The website does say that it could take several months for the service to become active.
Fairing recovery
The net-equipped SpaceX boat GO Ms. Tree catches a Falcon 9 payload fairing half on Aug. 18, 2020. (Image credit: Elon Musk via Twitter)
SpaceXâs dynamic fairing-catching duo, GO Ms Tree and GO Ms Chief are still sidelined, undergoing maintenance in Port Canaveral. As such, GO Searcher and GO Navigator have been dispatched to the planned recovery site.
The two boats, which typically support Dragan missions, are able to scoop the fairing pieces out of the water, enabling SpaceX to continue its plans to recover and reuse the fairing pieces. For this particular mission, both pieces have flown before. With any luck, they will live to fly again.
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isnât true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. âSoren Kierkegaard. "...truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity--it is simply true and that is the end of it" - Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. âHe that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to Godâs providence to lead him aright.â - Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" â George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph â 1795. We live in a âpost-truthâ world. According to the dictionary, âpost-truthâ means, ârelating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.â Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting â this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequencesâtemporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." â George Orwell âThere are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isnât true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.â â Soren Kierkegaard